Unitary yarn device and method of making same



R; E. TAYLOR. UNITARY YARN DEVICE AND METHOD OF MAKlNG SAME.

APPLICATION FILED JAN. 17. I919.

Patented June 15, 1920.

UNITE STAT aussnm. E. TAYLOR, or NEW YORK, N. Y.

UNITARY YARN DEVICE AND ME'IHOD OF MAKTNG SAME.

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T0 all'whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, RUssnLL E. .T'AYLOR, citizen of the United States,resldmg at New York, in the county of New York and State of New York,have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Unitary YarnDevices and Methods of Making Same, of which the following is aspecification.

It has'been customary to prepare yarn in skeins and place the skeins onthe market in that form, requiring the user to wind the skeins in ballsbefore knitting. This is objectionable, not only from its inconvenienceto the user and time lost, but also on account of deteriorating theloftiness'or quality of the yarn by handling, particularly the outsidelayers of the ball if unwound from the inside in knitting and in anycase when knitting from a ball, due to its constant handling and rollingabout. In some cases yarn has been rolled into balls at the mills andsold on the market in the form of balls, instead of skeins. But

the winding into balls at the mills is very expensive and done withdifliculty, eyen with the best machines avallable, making it necessaryto secure a hlgh selhng price for ball wound yarn.

But even machine wound balls have all the objections of hand wound ballsof inconvenience in knitting when rolling about and of deteriorating thequality of the yarn in handling. If it be attempted to confine the ballin a limited space, that still fun ther compresses and deteriorates itsquality by constant rubbing and turning. Yarn, after coming from themill, should be handled as little as possible, until after being knittedinto the garment. It is well known in the art that the less yarn ishandled, the better the quality of the yarn is preserved.

By my invention the yarn is wound easily" surfaces, while provision isalso mace for conveniently matching colors without handling the yarn.These and other objects of my invention in its preferred form will beunderstood from the following description.

Specification of Letters Patent. Patented J une 15, 1920. Applicationfiled January 17, 1919. Serial No. 271,585. I 3

Referring to the drawings, Figure l is a longitudlnal section of myimproved device; Fig. 2 is a diagrammatic elevation ferential joint 12.The portion 11 has a,

closed head 713 and the main portionll has an opposite closed head 14:provided with an opening 15 or eyelet, through which the strand42 ofyarn" may be drawn from the wound body 41 of yarn'within the casing.

Until ready for use or consumption of the yarn the end portion 42 isdoubledback against the. side of the container 11 and vbound thereto bya circumferential band or paster 16, or otherwise secured when desirable. V

The machine for'winding the yarn has a continuously rotating drum 21driven by the belt 22. The shaft 23 has fixed thereon a heavy drum 24which rests by gravity on thefdrum 21, making frictional engagementtherewith. The axes of drums 21 and 24: are slightly inclineddownwardlytothe right, causing the drum 2l'to have a tendency to moveaxially to the right against a stop 36. The shaft 23 passes through theU-shaped guides 25 and 25 and also through the notch 35 in the conicalformer 27 carried on the bracket 26. The yarn to be wound is on the reel28, the strand 29 passlng thence over the pulley 30 of the tensiondevice 31 and through the eye 32 on the end of the pivoted arm 33, whichis oscillated by the eccentric 34. V

The shaft 23 normally rotates continuously being driven by thefrictional engagement between the drums 21 and 24. The attendant passesthe strand 29 of the yarn from the. reel 28 over the pulley 30 throughthe eye 32 and gives it a few turns around the shaft 23 which may belifted vertically for this purpose to clear the notch 35 in the former27. As the yarn winds around the shaft 23, it is also guided back andforth longitudinally by the oscillating arm 33, and the former 27 soongives it a conical shape. Then as it continues to wind upon the convexface of the conical mass already formed, the rod 23 is pushed up to theleft as viewed in Fig. 2 by in a general way in a series of adjacentconi-.

cal disks or seotionsyin other words in a series of segments followingone another starting at one end of the yarn cylinder and continuingprogressively to the other end.

The attendant will then lift the shaft 23 out of the guide 25 and thenotch and remove the formed mass of yarn therefrom and start the sameoperation again as already described.

The yarn wound in a cylindrical mass 41 with a conical end 4L1 will haveits free end 42 threaded through the eyelet l5 and then f pushed intothe main part 11 of the container,

fitting therein. The cap 1 1 will be applied covering the conicalprojecting end 41 and the free terminal 42 will be secured under theband 16. Thus; the device will be ready for market and use.

For inspection, and particularly for matching color, it is desirable tolook at the yarn in a body instead of viewing thesingle strand 4E2.Accordingly, the cap 11 may be removed so that the whole projectingconical portion 41 can be viewed and matched for color if so desired.

For use of the yarn, as in knitting, the end 4&2 will be removed fromunder the band .16 and paying out will begin at that end. The

i yarn will unwind in the same order in which was wound, drawing alwaysfrom the end toward the eyelet 15 and thus there will form a conicaldepression in that end of the body .41. If desired the yarn may beunwound from the other end of the yarn core,

unwinding inthe reverse order in which it was wound. All the residualyarn in the container 11 will remain relatively fixed therein, While thestrand 4:2 is being drawn out. i i

It will be seen that in the manufacture, marketing, and use of the yarn,it is'fully protected from injury by handling or other .wise. It remainsentirely undisturbedin the container from the time it is placed there inmanufacture until it is drawn out in a continuous strand for use. Whilebeing drawn out in actual use the residual yarn remains I undisturbedand fully protected in the cas ing, Nevertheless it is easily accessiblefor inspection as for matching of colors as has been already pointedout; The convenience of the container for marketing and use and thefacility with which knitting may be begun and continued from time totime will be j apparent without further explanation.

I claim-'- I r r The combination with a continuous length of yarn builtup progressively in additive sections in anaxial direction forming acom- 7 pact body portion and an extending end portion, of a generallycylindrical container fitting said body portion and leaving said endportion protruding, a closed end of said container, and an oppositeseparable part inclosing said extending end' portion and removabletherefrom to expose saidend POT-.-

tion to View on the sides and end for,

matching colors without disturbing the yarn} RUSSELL E. TAYLOR.

